New Year came and passed; the beautiful garden of Belles Demoiselles put on its spring attire; the seven fair sisters moved from rose to rose; the cloud of discontent had warmed into invisible vapor in the rich sunlight of family affection, and on the common memory the only scar of last year's wound was old Charlie's sheer impertinence in crossing the caprice of the De Charleus.

" Uncle John strode into the room angry and indignant at the fellow's cool impertinence.

Your remark is the merest impertinence.

Her apologies for Jimmie's most delicious impertinences are so sincere and her sense of humour so absolutely wanting that we love her almost as dearly as we love Jimmie.

He had a certain cheap cunning and unbounded impertinence.

"If I weren't going to leave you in a minute I should punish you for that piece of brotherly impertinence," said she, with spirit.

He spoke with careless impertinence, and let himself drop on to a chair.

" "We'll pay ye, won't we, Misther Madison?" put in Terrence, with his characteristic impertinence.

" One could hardly resent such charming impertinence.

And surely this did presently to stir her to a new defying and to a pretty anger; for she did sing other songs of impudence, that she did fit very clever about me; and this way to have a constant impertinence.

"And left her cousinly impertinence behind her," retorted a gay voice from his elbow.

To transplant and make him ours, is not only a valuable acquisition to us, but a just censure of the critical impertinence of those French scriblers, who have taken pains to make little cavils and exceptions, to lessen the reputation of this great man, whom nature hath made too big to confine himself to the exactness of a studied stile.

He had a certain cheap cunning and unbounded impertinence.

Marmaduke went home, much puzzled, urgently commanding Theresa to write to him, and announcing to Arthur Welby, who listened silently, as he talked, that if Fenwick did propose, he should think it a damned impertinence.

Matta, severely reprimanded for his dangerous impertinence, confessed that a brush between the opposing forces outside would have been a diverting conclusion to the evening.

Dr. Rowlands continued"I suppose this dastardly impertinence has been perpetrated by some boy out of a spirit of revenge.

[With the most disdainful impertinence.]

Here he called aloud; the feeble echo of his own voice seemed only a dull impertinence to the significant silence.

The king's quick wit caught the extravagant impertinence, and in an ecstasy of delight he rolled on the ground with laughter, while a perplexed merriment ran round the circle of courtiers who scarce knew what the joke might be.

And we get a foretaste of the familiar Shandian impertinence in the remark which follows, that "there are many good similes subsisting in the world, but which I have neither time to recollect nor look for," which would give you an idea of the parson's astonishment at Trim's impudence.

As to Ward I did but touch a filament or two in one of his monstrous cobwebs, and off he ran instantly to Newman to complain of my gratuitous impertinence.

the grave impertinence: Business!

It was just the case in which counsel should be volunteered;in which so much could be said which would be gross impertinence from others though it might be so manifest a duty to a clergyman!

The church was despoiled of her electoral autonomy; and the magistracy, treated with haughty and silly impertinence, was vanquished and humiliated in the exercise of its right of remonstrance.

"At home, in the streets of London, I have been rudely spoken to; I have been greatly annoyed in Paris; in New York I have been subject to humorous impertinence; but in the great North-West every man has seemed to be my friend.